One of three known copies. Part of a collection of 130 books including 60 incunables, 14 books printed by Wynkyn de Worde, a large number of 16th and 17th century books of which no other copy is recorded and 8 bindings of exceptional quality.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1492
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 250
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1807 - 13
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Trinity College, Cambridge
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Most of the letters contain exhortations and advice as to the boy's studies. Presented by John Ehrman
Item date: 1547-1883
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 27
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
900 documents mostly 17th and 18th centuries; valuable for the study of economic and agricultural history
Item date: 1612
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 25
Institution: National Trust, Blickling Hall
Town/City: Bllckling
County: Norfolk
The Jacobean ceiling of the library at Blickling Hall has panels taken from this emblem book
Item date: 1560
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: 150
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Written on vellum, the greater part of Europe is shown, including the British Isles and North Africa; fully illuminated and decorated with flags, coats of arms, pictures of towns and cities and the King of Spain on his throne. Illustrated as plate II of AR
Item date: 1753
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: 30
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Heckles work was not previously represented in the Library
Item date: 1472
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
First German adaptation of the Collationes patrum, the first book printed by Bmler. Presented by CA Webb together with Spiegel des Snders, 1480. A confessional manual printed at Augsburg
Item date: 1752
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: 15 15s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Keene was Ambassador to Spain. Add MS 49621
Item date: 1599 - 1603
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: 30
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Consists mainly of copies of royal warrants and letters of instruction from the Privy Council when Carey was Treasurer at War in Ireland. Sheds light on the period of the Tyrone rebellion. Add MS 49609
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: 50
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The gift of a group of Conan Doyle enthusiastis in America together with the Sherlock Holmes Society of London to mark the centenary of CD's birth in 1959. Illustrated as plate I of AR. Add MS 50065